The ability of young children to use two-word sentences is referred to as __________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
   1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
   2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
   3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
   4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

2. At about age two children begin to use two word sentences. This is known as_____speech.

   A. Telegraphic
   B. Operational
   C. Semantic
   D. Pre-grammatical

3. When related sentences are put together to make a sensible message, this is referred to as:

   A. Context
   B. Semantics
   C. Pragmatics
   D. Discourse

4. A young man explained that he did poorly on his exam because his eyes hurt the test was unfair, and he did not feel the subject was important anyway. The young man is using what type of defense mechanism?

   A. rationalization
   B. fantasy
   C. projection
   D. displacement

5. Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:

   A. biological basis of aggression
   B. adaptively basis of aggression
   C. homicidal protest
   D. media causes violence hypothesis

6. A psychologist interested is knowing how young children think while learning ‘how to play games’, is a (n):

   A. Behavioural psychologist
   B. Sport psychologist
   C. Cognitive psychologist
   D. Environmental psychologist

7. A psychologist interested in knowing how young children think while learning ‘how to play games’, is a (an):

   A. Behavioural psychologist
   B. Sports psychologist
   C. Cognitive psychologist
   D. Environmental psychologist

8. The ability to see very small differences in the alignment of two objects is referred to as______

   A. Perceptual set
   B. Vernier acuity
   C. Perceptual template
   D. Vertical organization

9. When we use the word “tree” to refer to a category of plants, we are using this word as a/an __________________?

   A. prototype
   B. heuristic
   C. concept
   D. algorithm

10. For children with ADHD, the ability to learn is severely because they:

    A. are mildly retarded
    B. act on impulse and cannot concentrate
    C. must take stimulants which shorten attention span
    D. are given sedatives which make them listless